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Content Pack for vRLI overview

This content pack provides analysis of events from the LXCA, LXCO, and the resources managed by LXCA. These insights can help systems administrators find potential problems in their environment.

  • Monitoring of hardware events in a LXCA and LXCO-managed environment

    • Quickly identify trends based on hardware events received, including hardware failures, power/thermal thresholds that have been exceeded, and PFAs (predicted failure alerts). These events are also categorized by source, type of hardware surfacing the events, and whether service is required. This information can help identify issues in your data centers, so you can react before more serious issues occur.

    • Listing the common issues helps in understanding the hardware health status, systems that would need attention as they are going out of warranty, systems that are power on or off, have certificate issues, etc.

    • Listing the resource events helps in understanding the memory, CPU, and IO event count, etc.

  • Auditing for security changes occurring within the LXCA.

    • Security events surfaced by LXCA can help identify if unauthorized personnel is trying to access your computing resources. This might include events showing that new users have been added/deleted, what IP addresses users are using to access the LXCA, the time and dates when they are accessing resources and any changes to the security settings of the LXCA (or user IDs on the LXCA).

    • Visual representations can show changes in these activities, which could identify if an attack is occurring.

    • The Security Logins help to list the unsuccessful authentications to LXCA and managed resources, grouped by the address of the user. The pie chart lists user IDs that have successfully logged in to LXCA. It further helps to list the number of changes done to the account security settings over time.

  • Auditing for the provisioning of LXCA-managed resources, including:

    • Firmware updates

    • Configuration pattern deployment

    • Bare-metal OS deployments

  • LXCA specializes in helping system administrators make desired changes on their computing resources. This includes updating the firmware of LXCA-managed resources, deploying configuration changes to groups of systems, and deploying operating systems to bare-metal systems. This can help identify how much change is occurring to the configuration of servers, and if the changes have been authorized.

  • The Content Pack for vRLI utilizes the interactive analysis vRLI feature & displays the Predictive Analytics dashboard to leverage the LXCO alerts listing. The alerts are predefined alerts, user-defined custom alerts, and so on.

  • Facilitates extending vSAN support to Content Pack for vRLI. It supports adding graphs for correlating Lenovo HW events for disk or storage with vSAN events disk or storage, and so on.